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21 July 2017

Just like humans, many fish like to surround themselves with active companions - but frisky friends also make for fierce competition. New research from PhD student, Ms Anna Persson, and a team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK reveals that minnows would rather swim with their most active friends, even if they pose more of a threat.

12 December 2016

I used funds from my travel grant to go to Brown University, Rhode Island in order to collect data to determine whether turtles can move their pelvis inside the shell while they walk and swim. We did this using an emerging technology called X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM) that coordinates CT scans of the skeleton with 3D X-ray video to allow precise measurements of the movements of internal structures in animals.